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  • Mind you, as we rode north I was much reassured by the assembly of men and material along the Grand Trunk Road: from Meerut up it was aswarm with British regiments, Native Infantry, dragoons, lancers, Company cavalry, and guns by the park — the Khalsa'll never tackle this crowd, thinks I; they'd be mad.

    Flashman and the Mountain of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

  • Mind you, as we rode north I was much reassured by the assembly of men and material along the Grand Trunk Road: from Meerut up it was aswarm with British regiments, Native Infantry, dragoons, lancers, Company cavalry, and guns by the park - the Khalsa'll never tackle this crowd, thinks I; they'd be mad.

    Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

  • The garrison at Multan consisted of a troop of Native Horse Artillery, two regiments of Native Infantry, and the 1st Irregular Cavalry, composed entirely of Hindustanis from the neighbourhood of Delhi; while in the old Sikh fort there were about fifty European

    Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts

  • Lieutenant-Colonel Money, of the 3rd Sikhs, with a detachment consisting of 2 Mountain guns and 560 British and Native Infantry.

    Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts

  • Infantry, a regiment of Native Cavalry, a regiment of Native Infantry, and the Viceroy's Bodyguard.

    Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts

  • I recollect the commanding officer of the 55th, the Native Infantry corps at this station, who had served all his life with clean-looking, closely-shaven Hindustanis, pointing with a look of contempt, not to say disgust, to some Sikhs (a certain proportion of whom had been under recent orders enlisted in regiments of Native Infantry), and expressing his regret that he could not get them to shave their beards and cut their hair.

    Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts

  • Major Kershaw, two companies of Native Infantry, two nine-pounders, and two squadrons of the 2nd Bengal Cavalry, the whole under the command of Col. Salter of the 2nd Cavalry, preceded the main column.

    A Peep into Toorkisthhan Rollo Gillespie Burslem

  • This regiment reached Calcutta on the 20th March, and on the 31st the disbandment of the mutinous Native Infantry regiment was carried out.

    Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts

  • There was a terrible stir in the barracks of the -- th Native Infantry at

    Harper's Young People, March 23, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various

  • Army organization, each regiment of Native Cavalry had 22, and each regiment of Native Infantry 25 British officers, who rose to the higher grades by seniority.

    Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts

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